Iran's FM says Trump betraying diplomacy with strikes during talks

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Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi delivers a speech during a session of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, February 17, 2026. /VCG

Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday accused US President Donald Trump of betraying both diplomacy and the American people by bombing the negotiating table amid nuclear talks.

"When complex nuclear negotiations are treated like a real estate transaction, and when big lies cloud realities, unrealistic expectations can never be met," Araghchi said in a post on social media platform X.

"The outcome? Bombing the negotiation table out of spite. Mr. Trump betrayed diplomacy and Americans who elected him," he added.

His remarks follow joint US-Israeli strikes on Tehran and several other Iranian cities starting Saturday morning.

Separately, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei warned in an X post on Wednesday that some European Union members are risking "being placed on the wrong side of history by appearing complicit in the US-Israeli aggressions and war crimes against the Iranian nation."

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency

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